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Journalist-turned-Croatian independence fighter Eduardo Rosza-Flores was asked in an interview a few years ago with the Hungarian edition of Elle Magazine if he would ever assassinate someone for a cause. "Only if [that person] comes to kill others," said Rozsa, according to an English version of the transcript posted on one of his blogs. "To protect and save the lives of my friends...
...question now is whether Rozsa, a Hungarian-Bolivian, felt that way about Bolivian President Evo Morales. Rozsa was killed early last Thursday morning in a hotel room in the eastern Bolivian city of Santa Cruz. The government claims that he, along with four others, was part of a terrorist cell that was plotting to assassinate Bolivia's first indigenous President as well as other high government officials. "He went to Santa Cruz because he wanted to fight for autonomy of that region, which he said was his new and most important task," says Rozsa's close friend, Zoltan Brady...
...speeding into hyperdrive during the past few years. Both Twenge and Pinsky argue that the narcissism of celebrities is being mirrored in the culture by Americans who, like a child, mimic attention-getting star behavior by singing on YouTube, sexting photos, getting plastic surgery or naming their totally non-Hungarian son Laszlo Stein. (Watch Stein visit a couple getting Botox at home...
...largest budget deficits in the E.U. Since last September, things have grown progressively worse. Not only has Hungary needed the life support of a US $25.1 billion credit line from the International Monetary Fund, its currency has been in free fall. Since the beginning of this year, the Hungarian Forint has slid 19% against the U.S. dollar, and 13% against the Euro. The government now predicts the economy could shrink by 3% this year, a modest estimate compared to the 7.5% drop predicted by some analysts. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...Gyurcsany's departure closes the book on an administration troubled from the day it was elected in April 2006. Just a few months after that poll, anti-government protesters in Budapest attacked the Hungarian state TV building, clashed with police, and set fire to vehicles during several nights of violent riots. The riots were sparked by the government's unpopular reform program, which aimed to tackle everything from healthcare and pensions to the size of the state bureaucracy. (See pictures of riots...